NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard suspended the search for two missing crewmembers in the vicinity of Lonesome Bayou at approximately 12 p.m., Thursday.
Coast Guard crews searched a 13,451 square-mile area for more than 130 hours in an effort to locate the two missing fishermen.
Coast Guard resources used in the search effort:
• The 87-foot Coast Guard Cutters Razorbill and Stingray;
• Four response...

VICKSBURG, Miss. — The unified command continues to respond to a crude oil spill in the lower Mississippi River near mile marker 436 in Vicksburg, Miss., Thursday.
At 10:05 a.m. today response crews removed fuel from the damaged barge MOC-12 after reconfiguring oil-pump equipment. Following completion of the oil removal operations the damaged barge will be inspected and prepared for transit to...

By Claudette Roulo
NEW LONDON, Conn. – The Coast Guard has a constant mission, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told cadets at the Coast Guard Academy today.
“The military — and I include you in that joint force — we are the preeminent leadership experience in the world,” Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said during an all-hands assembly of cadets.
That leadership experience...

by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert
When a boatcrew from Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet got underway Monday, it wasn’t for search and rescue, drug interdiction, marine safety, or defense readiness – missions typically associated with the Coast Guard.
Yet, the day’s unique mission was no less important — to deliver much needed medicine and pharmaceutical supplies to the...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard crews and a good Samaritan assisted the crew of a 70-foot fishing vessel taking on water approximately five miles west of Fairweather Ground Wednesday.
A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and crew successfully delivered dewatering pumps to the four people aboard the fishing vessel Masonic. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Liberty is en route...

KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, forward deployed to St. Paul, medevaced a crewmember from the 126-foot fishing vessel North Sea who was reportedly suffering seizure-like symptoms approximately 60 miles southwest of St. Paul Wednesday.
The helicopter crew safely hoisted the patient from the North Sea and successfully transported the crewmember St....

VICKSBURG, Miss. — The unified command continues to respond to a crude oil spill in the lower Mississippi River near mile marker 436 in Vicksburg, Miss., Wednesday.
At approximately 2:30 p.m. the tow-barge that is on scene started removing fuel from the damaged barge MOC-12. The damaged barge will be inspected and prepared for transit to a maritime facility nearby Vicksburg after oil removal operations...

BOSTON — The Coast Guard and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued a violation to a Gloucester, Mass.,-based fishing vessel for a significant fisheries infraction, Tuesday.
The vessel was issued the violation for allegedly fishing for Northeast Multispecies in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone while utilizing a net liner, an illegal fishing gear configuration.
Coast...